Rahmatian on the Elements of Music Relevant For Copyright Protection

Andreas Rahmatian, University of Glasgow, School of Law, has published The Elements of Music Relevant for Copyright Protection in Concepts of Music and Copyright: How Music Perceives Itself and How Copyright Perceives Music 78-122 (A. Rahmatian ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015). Here is the abstract.

One may argue that copyright law has no genuine understanding of the nature of music as an art form; it attaches to certain aspects of music which it declares as normatively relevant and thus ascertains building blocks of the legal protection system. In this way music is considered as an object of legal transactions, especially as an object of transferable property. This is a result of the translation process of music into legal categories. This chapter looks at the elements and stages of this process, starting with sketching out a philosophical discussion of the phenomenon of music as a basis for copyright protection.

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